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Child Welfare Virtual Expo 2019 – Becoming a Workforce of Everyday Scientists: Frontline Staff in Agencies and Tribes
The theme of the fourth annual Virtual Expo “Effectiveness in Child Welfare: Our Role in Improving the Lives of Children and Families”, will provide opportunities to learn about collecting and using data, feedback, and research in child welfare to assess performance, test assumptions, and determine how you can be most effective in your work. Whether learning as an individual or group, child welfare staff will have the opportunity to hear from experts, access valuable resources, connect new knowledge to their work, and identify goals for improving their own practice and the work of their teams.
Each individual working in child welfare to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families is an everyday scientist and contributes to the greater understanding of how to become more effective in daily practice. This session explores how individual child welfare staff can innovate through small-scale altering and testing in the context of their everyday work instead of waiting for an evidence-based practice to be developed, tried, and tested. Participants also discover ways to become a more effective “scientist” by gathering, using and applying data in a systematic and practical way to make a difference and improve effectiveness.
Presenter
Traci Tippett, L.C.S.W., M.S.S.W.
Traci Tippett works closely with the Children’s Bureau (CB) and other experts to shape and implement the national agendas for the Capacity Building Center for States’ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or questioning (LGBTQ) and workforce development priority areas. She also co-leads the State-Tribal topics priority area. One of Tippett's primary responsibilities is helping States and territories build capacity through the development and management of projects, products, and constituency groups. A former national child welfare consultant, trainer, curriculum developer, and clinician, Tippett has 24 years of child welfare experience and specializes in adoption, LGBTQ, foster care, trauma, and attachment issues.